Seventh Circuit reverses certification of construction workers' race discrimination classes based upon Wal-Mart

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Baker & Hostetler LLP

John B. Lewis

USA

August 13 2012

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in an opinion written by Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, reversed an Order certifying two multi-site classes of black construction workers alleging race discrimination based upon the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011). In Bolden v Walsh Construction.pdf, (No. 12-2205, August 8, 2012) the Seventh Circuit panel found the 12 named plaintiffs failed to satisfy the requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(a)(2) that a class may be certified only if “there are questions of law or fact common to the class.”

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